Cedarpelta Carpenter, Kirkland, Burge & Bird, 2001
Cedarpelta Carpenter, Kirkland, Burge & Bird, 2001
(The armored dinosaurs. Indiana University Press Bloomington & Indianapolis: 216.
NcZ) "Cedar (Mountain) shield"
SEE-dar-PEL-tuh (Cedar + Gr. pelte "shield") (f)
named to indicate an armored dinosaur from the Cedar Mountain Formation in Utah.
Cedarpelta is a very large primitive ankylosaurid (est. 7.5-8.5 m (25-28+ ft) long),
known from a partial skull (Holotype skull: CEUM 10405
(College of Eastern Utah Prehistoric Museum, Price, Utah)), another disarticulated skull,
plus postcranial material, found at the top of the Early Cretaceous (Albian) Ruby Ranch Member
of the Cedar Mountain Formation, southeast of Price, in Carbon County, eastern Utah.
The skull is about 60 cm (24 in) long and has a narrow snout and ornamentation formed
from remodeling of the surface of the bones on the roof of the skull, not coossification
with dermal armor; it shares features with the skull of Shamosaurus from the Early Cretaceous
of Mongolia, suggesting faunal exchange between Asia and North America.
Type Species: Cedarpelta bilbeyhallorum [bil-bee-haw-LOR-uhm] Carpenter, Kirkland,
Burge & Bird, 2001: for Sue Ann Bilbey and Evan Hall, who discovered the locality in near Price,
Utah. Ankylosauria Ankylosauridae Early Cretaceous (Albian-Cenomanian) NA [added 6-2002]
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